The Lewis Walpole Library is delighted to announce the award recipients for 2014-2015 Visiting Fellowships and Travel Grants
Fellowships
Sophie Coulombeau, University of York, John Trusler’s Memoirs
Leigh-Michil George, UCLA, Comical Consciousness: Caricature and the Novel, 1726-1837
Claire Grogan, Bishop’s University, The Role of Political Caricature in Britain during the 1790s
Jordan Howell, University of Delaware, Book Abridgment in Eighteenth-Century England; Lewis Walpole Library and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Fellow
Nicholas J.S. Knowles, Independent Scholar, A Catalogue Raisonné of Rowlandson’s Prints
Cody Lass, Texas Tech University, Being British in America: The Seven Years War and Colonial Identity
J. Vanessa Lyon, Grinnell College, Catholic Tastes: Religion, Foreignness, and the Birth of Gothic Visual Culture in England, 1715-1790; Roger W. Eddy Fellow
Heather McPherson, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Speculum Mundi: Caricature and the Stage; LWL-ASECS Fellow
Tim Pye, British Library, The Library of Thomas Tyrwhitt
Matthew Sangster, British Library, Antiquarian Networks and the Meanings of Literature in the Eighteenth Century; Charles J. Cole Fellow
Paris A. Spies-Gans, Princeton University, Creativity through Conflict: How Female Artists Navigated the Age of Revolution; George B. Cooper Fellow
Edward Vallance, Roehampton University, Mark Noble, the Sentimental Loyalist
Jane Wessel, University of Delaware, Property, Originality, and Performance: The Condition of Authorship on the Eighteenth-Century Stage
Travel Grants
Colin B. Burke, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, Information Challenges of the American Intelligence Agencies
Silvia Davoli, Strawberry Hill House, Horace Walpole’s Collection at Strawberry Hill
Thomas N. McGeary, Independent Scholar, Music and the Grand Tour
Terry F. Robinson, University of Toronto, A History of Nobody: A Graphic and Literary Record of Being and Non-Being, 1700-1900
David Worrall, Nottingham Trent University, The Strawberry Hill Private Theatricals of 1800 and 1801
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